• Oak launches DTV five-in-one single chip
• Nvidia and ATI land new notebook chip orders
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• Hammer on a hiding to nothing, say Gartner bootboys
• Granite Bay is ready for launch
• Appeals court OKs fax intercepts

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Another thing we found out was that, the SY Dragon Ultra KT400 performs better with 333DDR memory and gives around 5-10% performance increase in all the benchmark tests. This is good news for all those intending to purchase one of these boards, since for the moment it's better to hang onto your PC2700 Memory than upgrading.

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The Sapphire 9700 Pro was one of the first cards that was available utilizing the new ATI 9700 Pro VPU. It is often found at a lower price than an ATI 9700 Pro. Is it worth your investment?

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AGP8X, DDR400, SATA150, SoftMenu™, USB2.0

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At a time when motherboards are packing more and more integrated peripherals and features on board, it is seldom that we are presented with an interesting package such as the Leadtek WinFast TwinForce2 product or should we say, products(s)? The huge TwinForce2 is a combo packaging consisting of a Leadtek WinFast A250 LE TD 64MB graphics card, which is based on the NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 GPU and a Leadtek WinFast K7N1415DA motherboard based on the NVIDIA nForce.

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Finally, after years of the same thing, a company has ventured into a different way of cooling your processor.... *drumroll*..... The HEATPIPE! This technology has actually been around for a very long time. What may surprise you is that it has already been used for cooling processor chips. So what's different? Indeed it has been used before for cooling processors but this was only used in machines where normal heatsinks and fans don't really fit. This amazing pipe has been widely used for notebook & lap top computers, but never before has anyone come close to bringing this application to the desktop computer.

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SOURCES IN THE KNOW tell us that 400MHz is what Nvidia is aiming for their NV30 card. I need to clarify things and say we did once hear from a Senior Nvidia executive that, "there is no such thing as this frequency. It's all in the yield," suggesting that chip frequency is being determined after companies have pre-production samples often called A11 silicon.

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Unfortunately as a student I didn't just have $1000 lying around to buy a whole new top-of-the-line system. This is when I started looking at building a "budget gaming computer". Gone are the days (thankfully) when you needed to spend $3000 to build a good gaming system. This guide is to prove that gone are the days of even having to spend $1000 a good system. I set out to build a solid system that would meet and exceed all practical needs one may have. While you won't be winning any "benchmark drag races", you will still see blazingly fast frame rates and great system response.

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Thermal Take has been producing some very high quality products lately and I believe this shows the level of dedication to their customers. I have no problem suggesting this Power Supply Unit to anyone from a novice to an Overclocker.

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When the package arrived I was impressed. The cooler was solid in weight and feel with an attractive copper cooler and the gold anodized aluminum memory sinks. It came with 2 sets of RAM Sinks and a cooler with a 3 to 4 pin molex adapter which led me to believe that maybe it has a little more oomph than the standard cooler. The kit came with a double sided adhesive tape with enough tabs to attach the memory sinks and there was a packet of thermal grease for the core cooler. The core cooler did not require adhesive tabs because it is connected via two spring loaded plastic push pins attached to the copper cooler.

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ThermalRight reminds us that good performance doesn't always have to come at the cost of an arm and a leg. Priced at $26, while outperforming the Tt Volcano 7+ regardless of which fan we used is a noteworthy feat.

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If you are anything like me, then you probably have tons of fannage in your case to keeps things nice and cool. There are also probably times that you would like to turn some or all of them to a lower speed or turn them off completely. This is where Xoxide's 6 Port Variable Voltage Baybus comes in really handy. It has 6 independant ports that allow you to control your fan speed, and each channel can be switched from high (12 volts), to off, or to low (variable from 6.5 to 9.5 volts).

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